I’m not very involved with the Effective Altruism community myself, though I did post the same Quick Take on the EA Forum today, but I haven’t received any responses there yet. So I can’t really say for sure how widely known this is.
For context: I’m a lawyer working in AI governance and data protection, and I’ve also been doing independent AI safety research from a policy angle. That’s how I came across this, just by going through the full text of the AI Act as part of my research.
My guess is that some of the EAs working closely on policy probably do know about it, and influenced this text too! But it doesn’t seem to have been broadly highlighted or discussed in alignment forums so far. Which is why I thought it might be worth flagging.
Happy to share more if helpful, or to connect further on this.
I did not know about this either. Do you know whether the EAs in the EU Commission know about it?
Hi Lucie, thanks so much for your comment!
I’m not very involved with the Effective Altruism community myself, though I did post the same Quick Take on the EA Forum today, but I haven’t received any responses there yet. So I can’t really say for sure how widely known this is.
For context: I’m a lawyer working in AI governance and data protection, and I’ve also been doing independent AI safety research from a policy angle. That’s how I came across this, just by going through the full text of the AI Act as part of my research.
My guess is that some of the EAs working closely on policy probably do know about it, and influenced this text too! But it doesn’t seem to have been broadly highlighted or discussed in alignment forums so far. Which is why I thought it might be worth flagging.
Happy to share more if helpful, or to connect further on this.